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Raymond Chandler Autograph Postcards Signed.

:, 1957.

Rare autograph postcards signed by Raymond Chandler to his secretary Jean Fracasse and her son Vincent. Duodecimo, two postcards of Palm Springs, California, dated 21 November 1957. Chandler and Vince...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147854

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Selby Jr., Hubert. [Darren Aronofsky]

Requiem For A Dream.

London: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1979.

First edition of this work, which served as the basis for the 2000 film directed by Darren Aronofsky starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Ellen Burstyn. Octavo, original half clot...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151581

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Shakespeare, William

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With A Glossary.

Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1825.

Finely bound example of the collected dramatic works of William Shakespeare. 12mo, bound in full pebbled dark green morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to th...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142618

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Morrison, Toni

Beloved.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel and considered by many her finest. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Debra Toni Morr...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132605

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Ibsen, Henrik

The Works of Henrik Ibsen.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911-12.

The Viking edition of this collection of Henrik Ibsen’s works. Octavo, thirteen volumes, bound in mid-twentieth century three quarters brown morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150766

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Pierce, J.E and Walter B. Gibson, editors. [Houdini, Harry]

The Magic World.

Philadelphia: The Magic World Publishing Co, 1917-1924.

Rare complete collection of all 80 issues of The Magic World, the early 20th century periodical ‘Devoted to the Interests of Magicians, Ventriloquists, Illusionists, and Others of the Allied Art...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132590

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Churchill, Winston S

Ian Hamilton’s March.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery,...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144787

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Bellow, Saul

Saul Bellow Signed Novel Contracts.

New York: Viking Press, 1956-1968.

Saul Bellow’s retained copies of the original contracts with Viking Press for his novels Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, and short story collection Mosby’s Memoirs. Each contract is four...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-61091

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Mailer, Norman

The Naked and the Dead.

New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948.

First edition of the author’s first book. Thick octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to journalist Joe Haas, “For Joe Haas i...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-4625

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Rare 18th Century Heart-Shaped Christian Broadside.

Germany:, c. 1780.

Rare late 18th century liturgical broadside. Printed broadside mounted on a decorated heart-shaped hardwood frame with a hand-painted botanical border containing Protestant liturgical chants, daily pr...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96227

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Betrothed.

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Rare pamphlet of Kipling’s humorous and ironic poem. Duodecimo, original wrappers, frontispiece of Kipling, pictorial initials, six pages. In very good condition. Rare with none appearing at auc...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149559

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Yezierska, Anzia

Bread Givers: A Novel.

Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1925.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on the limitation page. Very good in the rare original dust jacket with light r...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-84583

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Butterfield, Frederic William Louis [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]

The Battle of Maldon, and Other Renderings from the Anglo-Saxon; Together with Original Verse.

Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1900.

First edition of this collection of English verse published to raise contributions for the Widows’ and Orphans’ Branch of the Transvaal War Fund. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Arthur C...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-92491

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Wallace, David Foster

Infinite Jest: A Novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Signed promotional of Infinite Jest laid in. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146279

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Baldwin, James

The Evidence of Things Not Seen.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.

First edition of this classic collection by the author of Giovanni’s Room. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147149

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Wolfe, Tom [Tom Hanks]

The Bonfire of the Vanities.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.

First edition of the author’s first novel, basis for the film starring Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe and Academy Award-winning ac...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150489

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Miller, Henry

Journey Into an Antique Land.

Big Sur: Ben Ben Press, 1970.

First edition of Miller’s short illustrated work on a visit to St. Remy in the South of France. 12mo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. One of only 2000 copies. Association copy, inscrib...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-95358

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[Kerouac, Jack]

1964 Columbia Review.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

Rare May 1964 issue of Columbia Review, personally owned by Columbia University alum and Beatnik writer, Jack Kerouac. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, volume XLIV number 2, illustrated, with the...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151757

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Kovic, Ron

“The Joy of Color!” Ron Kovic Original Painting.

:, 2013.

Rare original large format acrylic painting signed by Vietnam War Veteran and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter Ron Kovic. On thick Aquarell watercolor paper, the painting is signed three times...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-135265

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full calf by Root and Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dent...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-137984

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Power, Sir D'Arcy and H.J. Waring [King Edward VIII]

A Short History of St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1123-1923, Specially Bound on the Occasion of the 800th Anniversary of Its Foundation.

London: Charles Whittingham and Griggs, Ltd, 1923.

Elaborately bound presentation copy, belonging to King Edward VIII. Octavo, full tan morocco, elaborately gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels with black morocco inlays, cornerpieces of th...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-36018

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Blake, Michael [Kevin Costner; Wes Studi]

Dances with Wolves.

Tucson, AZ: Hrymfaxe, 2002.

First edition of the Hrymfaxe edition of this classic novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Blake on the half-title page...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151359

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Irving, John

A Prayer For Owen Meany.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.

First edition of the author’s seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Warmly signed by the author on the title page, “Merry Christmas John Irving...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145910

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Grass, Gunter

The Tin Drum.

New York: Pantheon, 1962.

First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic first novel. Octavo, bound in full black morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised ban...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3796

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